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PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Caterpillar Inc. announces corporate headquarters will remain in Peoria after 2-year study. This is a breaking news update. The Tribune's earlier story is below. Check back for further updates. --- PEORIA — People here are understandably nervous as they await an announcement Friday from Caterpillar, the $55 billion global manufacturing giant based here. It's been more than two years since Caterpillar launched a study to explore options for its headquarters, a pronouncement that made some people fear the company might follow the lead of Archer Daniels Midland, the $81.2 billion agri-food company. At the end of 2013 ADM announced it was...

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PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Caterpillar Inc. announces corporate headquarters will remain in Peoria after 2-year study.
This is a breaking news update. The Tribune's earlier story is below. Check back for further updates.
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PEORIA — People here are...

If money talks, it will have a lot to say in the new 2nd Ward come Election Day.More than $1 million has poured into the campaign coffers of the six candidates who want to represent the ward, which cuts across 13 North Side neighborhoods stretching...

Northbrook, demographically one of the oldest towns in the area, may be about to get a little older – again.A partnership of Northbrook builders has applied to tear down three houses on the southwest corner of Shermer and Techny roads and build what...

Say what you will about the cesspool of Illinois politics — buildings in the Land of Jailed Governors are a beacon of energy-saving construction.For the second straight year, Illinois ranked first among the states in a survey of new and newly renovated...

For Chicago travelers planning to go to the Northeast over the next few days, the National Weather Service has a word of advice: Don’t.
A massive snowstorm that could pack up to 3 feet of snow in the next 36 hours is expected to hit the region —...

A referendum question asking Westmont residents and taxpayers to fund various flood control projects will likely be on the April municipal election ballot.
The exact question has not been decided, with options including funding the projects with a new...

Will County judges have voted to appoint Assistant State’s Attorney Jessica Colon-Sayre to the bench, making her the first Hispanic woman to become a judge in the county. Colon-Sayre has been a Will County prosecutor since 2003 and is the former...

The Rev. Ira Acree says he was stopped at a red light on the West Side on a warm night this past summer when a Chicago police officer in a squad car suddenly cursed and shouted at him to pull over.
The officer accused him of texting on his cell phone...

In 2012, when Democrats held on to the White House, Republicans kept a comfortable majority of seats in the U.S. House. This was curious for only one reason: Nationally, Democrats running in House elections outpolled Republicans by more than a million...

EVANSTON, IL (Sept. 22, 2014) - Every day when 100-year-old Frances Papas leaves The Highlands at King Home assisted living community to go for a walk, she takes only a cane and her sense of humor. She tells the front desk person, "Don't have a heart...

The streets of Ferguson, Missouri, were mostly quiet on Wednesday after two nights of racially charged unrest following a U.S. grand jury decision to clear a white policeman over the killing of an unarmed black teenager. A couple of dozen protesters...

Jason Draper and his wife, Leonore, an anti-violence activist, were at an April fundraiser to raise awareness about gun crime when he decided to duck out early to grab some food and head home to rest. Leonore stayed behind to chat with her college...

In one of the most poignant scenes in HBO’s “True Detective,” Michelle Monaghan’s Maggie Hart accuses her husband, Martin, played by Woody Harrelson, of being a promiscuous “sulky teenager.”
“You put a ceiling on your life, on everything, because you...

Historians write to illuminate our shared past, to explicate the forces that shape our present.
But successive historical narratives also can create a series of veils, distancing the past from the present. The more recent dominates our thoughts. The...

From squeezing between a Dumpster and a wall to holding your breath as a bus hard stops at your bumper, cities can be an automotive minefield. And cars are often the casualties. Need proof? Look no further than auto insurance rates. A 40-year-old male...

The fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday, and subsequent violent protests, highlight a stubborn racial divide in a St Louis suburb that has struggled to build healthy relations between blacks and whites.
From the...

Today, Lake County State's Attorney Mike Nerheim filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the provision in House Bill 2418, now Public Act 98-0115, that removes the authority of the county clerk to administer elections and establishes an...

Village of Westmont changed Illinois History Books in 2012
By voter decision in the November General Election of 2012, the Village of Westmont returned to being a “Non-Home Rule” community and the 5th town to abandon Home Rule in Illinois. The other four...

Why Berwyn? Because the city is a destination that thrives on its diversity. Through its Integrated Marketing Campaign, the City of Berwyn proudly welcomes the LGBT community to Make the Move into its progressive city.
On June 30, the City of Berwyn's...

Eugene Mullins was a veteran Chicago police officer from a working-class family who'd grown up "sticking up for the little guy" when in 2006 his career took a dramatic turn.
His childhood friend Todd Stroger had just been elected Cook County...